Today was Fathers’ Day, when traditionally we celebrate our fathers! Stephen spoke tonight on how every day can be Father’s Day, however, for as Mal 2:10 reminds us ‘Do we not all have one father? Did not one God create us?‘ Every day we can celebrate the fact that God is our Father.
Gen 1:26-28 reminds us that God created mankind in His image and we are special to God because we are made in His likeness. We see our own likeness in our children and God’s likeness is similarly reflected in us. Stephen’s recent sermon series on the Lord’s Prayer reminds us that we pray to ‘our Father in heaven’, that our relationship to God is personal and individual. ‘Inclusion’ is a buzz word in the educational realm at the moment, and God wants to include each one of us in His family, giving to all who believe the right to become children of God. (John 1:12) In God, we live and move and have our being (Acts 17:28) As we accept Christ as our Saviour, we are born again into God’s family and become God’s own sons and daughters, given a reason to celebrate that lasts the whole year!